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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is one of the memorable German philosophers, who was a devout follower of Kant and belonged to the Idealist school of philosophy. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart in the year 1770 and studied theology for several years near Tubingen.
During this period Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel befriended Friedrich von Schelling and Friedrich Hölderlin, who later became a romantic poet. Georg Hegel spent many years as a tutor in Bern and Frankfurt and even served at the University of Berlin. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel dedicated his thoughts in conceiving reformative ideas on social and religious subjects. Gradually he got more drawn towards the Kantian philosophy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Works
The first philosophical work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was “The Difference between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy”, which was published in 1801. The influence of Schelling on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was quite evident in this work.He finished the “Phenomenology of Spirit” his first monumental work, in late 1806. This work reflected Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel as a new person who was developing his own theories as opposed to that of Schelling. When he functioned as a philosophy teacher in Nuremberg, he composed and published another great work, “Science of Logic”. Another famous work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is his “Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences”. His “Elements of the Philosophy of Right” is a great work of political philosophy.
The name of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is always associated with his unforgettable contribution to the world of philosophy.
